Henry Baltazar is a Research Director for the Storage Channel at 451 Research. Henry returned to 451 Research after spending nearly three years at Forrester Research as a senior analyst serving Infrastructure & Operations Professionals and advising Forrester clients on datacenter infrastructure technologies. Henry has evaluated and tested storage hardware and software offerings for more than 15 years as an industry analyst and as a journalist.
Prior to 451 Research and Forrester, Henry spent nearly nine years working as a technical analyst for eWeek Labs, where he covered storage, server hardware and network operating systems. At eWeek Labs, he initiated the testing coverage of various technologies, including data replication, clustering, virtual tape libraries, storage virtualization, SAN management, NAS, iSCSI and email archiving. In addition, Henry was a member of eWeek's editorial board and provided content for the magazine's enterprise storage blog. Henry has been widely quoted in the press, including such media outlets as Silicon Valley Business Journal, Computerworld and SearchStorage.com.
Henry holds a BA in environmental sciences from the University of California, Berkeley.
Already benefiting from the wave of momentum behind hyperconverged infrastructure, VMware's vSAN 6.7 update addresses some existing customer needs and also expands the vendor's reach into next-generation applications while enhancing core management capabilities with the use of AI/ML and application integration.
The company takes a software-defined approach to servers by offering a scale-up platform that uses machine learning to self-optimize resource delivery on standard scale-out hardware. HyperKernel allows a VM to take advantage of additional hardware resources to keep pace with workload needs.
The vendor is expanding to adjacent markets for data protection and cloud storage with its ambitious announcement. Will INFINIDAT's new portfolio further disrupt the highly competitive storage market?
The company has expanded its portfolio of SDS products to reach further into the cloud while continuing to capitalize on next-generation workloads like containerized applications.
One of the benefits of SaaS is that it offers a more hands-off approach, but this can also result in a lack of protection for the data being generated by SaaS applications. Enterprises need to know if SaaS data is being protected by the service provider, and if not, how to best implement their own plans for backup.
The Voice of the Enterprise: Storage, Budgets and Outlook survey was conducted from November 2017 through February 2018. The Quarterly Customer Narratives provide a detailed tracker of customer feedback from approximately 18 in-depth telephone interviews with end users, segmented by respondent, company size, vendor(s) used and theme (342-quote Excel report). The survey represents approximately 600 completed questionnaires and 18 individual interviews with leading-edge senior IT executives primarily based in North America, Europe and Asia, providing a 'narrative' view of the market. In addition to regular quarterly topics, this survey focuses on the adoption levels of various cloud storage technologies and services, and ascertains the impact of public cloud and SaaS strategies on enterprise storage infrastructures.
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